VtVAX 7000 for Bare Metal Product Overview

This document provides an overview of vtVAX 7000 for Bare Metal, a cost-effective solution for virtualizing DEC VAX servers and workstations on modern commodity hardware. It allows OpenVMS operating systems, user interfaces, and applications to run unmodified, protecting existing investments and eliminating the need for code conversion or retraining.

Key features and benefits include:

• Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces maintenance and operating costs, offering "green" benefits.
• Hardware Compatibility & Performance: Offers significantly increased CPU and disk performance compared to original VAX systems, with an optional Instruction Caching for enhanced CPU-intensive application performance.
• Ease of Use: A graphical configuration interface allows for easy specification and imaging of existing VAX hardware.
• System Consolidation: Supports running multiple virtual VAX instances on a single host system.
• Storage Subsystem: Utilizes container files for logical disks and tapes, residing on various storage devices. This allows for efficient disk consolidation, expansion, and faster backup/restore operations.
• Network Subsystem: Supports multiple Ethernet adapters and various VAX network protocols, with virtual network switches for flexible connectivity.
• Serial Lines: Emulates the VAX 7000 console port (OPA0) and supports additional serial connections via Telnet or LAT.
• OpenVMS Clusters: Supports VMS clustering using Ethernet interconnect.
• Software License Protection: Licenses generally transfer to vtVAX.
• Host Computer Requirements: Runs on multi-core 64-bit Intel or AMD x86 processors with a minimum CPU speed of 3.0 GHz and sufficient memory.
• Secure Environment: Features an "opt-in" security environment with configurable access roles, secure communication protocols, and event logging.

vtVAX 7000 for Bare Metal can emulate 1-6 CPU VAX 7600 systems with up to 3.5 GB of memory, requiring OpenVMS version 5.5-2 or later. The OpenVMS console can be configured via COM port or Telnet.